Comments on: Refreshed Homepage Now Up

By: Ehab

Ehab — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:46:26 +0000

Been a long time really, since I stopped by. This and that. Nagging.

Love the redesign. Surely want to write a note about this ( not that it matters lol ).

Anyway, everyone, this is purely an example of what, WordPress can do

By: aj

aj — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:19:09 +0000

@Darren – I have it planned to add some news briefs and sidenotes briefs into the sidebar.

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:25:07 +0000

Nice. I like the changes. It’s obviously much easier to take a quick glance at the content.

By: Darren Hoyt

Darren Hoyt — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:40:49 +0000

I like the improvements – nice and clean. I wouldn’t mind seeing recent headlines from the “Site News” section displayed on the homepage just so users can see all the dynamic updates displayed in one place. On preview, what Bryce was essentially saying.

By: aj

aj — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:18:51 +0000

Thanks Dan. Suggestion 1 is now in place, and I’ll look into getting the Opera thing sorted out

By: Dan Schulz

Dan Schulz — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:58:40 +0000

AJ, I’d swap the background colors on the menu (use the red for the base, and then the greyish tan for the highlight) to tie it in with the red in the logo for branding and separation purposes (separation of the masthead from the content).

I’d also look into making sure the layout doesn’t break when using Opera’s page zoom feature (by break I mean forcing a horizontal scrollbar). It’s a trend I’ve noticed in a lot of design blogs lately and it’s really annoying me. You have my email address, so you can contact me that way for some pointers if you want.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:07:54 +0000

Really nice, clean and gives an idea of all the content available.

One suggestion though, is on the homepage – write excerpts for the article, because when you just use the first x characters, you don’t necessarily get the whole gist of the article.

I would also make some banners to rotate around the top to show off the other features on the site, i.e interviews and WordPress themes.

By: aj

aj — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:10:35 +0000

Yes, they are. I’ve discontinued them for the final time. They were action less. :S

By: raptrex

raptrex — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:05:29 +0000

forums are gone…

By: Matsimitsu

Matsimitsu — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:24:22 +0000

It’s really better indeed, i really like the focus on the content. Nice job!

By: Ranjani

Ranjani — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:34:35 +0000

Much better! I like the focus on the content and the interviews. Of course, there’s still a place for Fernando’s illustration — it just doesn’t need so much surrounding fanfare.